Where Americans learn about climate science: Everyone wants to pour their climate message into the chasm of ignorance, the Yale study revealed, including Glenn Beck and possibly an oil company-backed group of evangelicals, who are pushing the notion climate change is a “false religion,” says Think Progress.

Climate Hawks gearing up to eviscerate climate appeasers: A nascent effort to re-brand “People Who Care About Climate and Clean Energy” as distinct from “environmentalists” has settled on the term “Climate Hawks.”

China’s clampdown on rare Earth minerals exports threatens global clean-tech industry: China has a global monopoly on the “rare earth” minerals without which the global clean-tech industry would grind to a halt, so when rumor hit the wires that it would be reducing exports of the materials, the response in some circles was apoplectic.

Much of the globe, including the U.S., will be threatened by drought within decades, reports the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Meanwhile, “higher-latitude regions from Alaska to Scandinavia are likely to become more moist.”

Human influence on the environment, including climate change, means we are now in an era of “megafires,” says Popular Mechanics.